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a condition in which a person is unable to remember things because of head injury, shock, illness, or fatigue
The concussion left him with amnesia, and he couldn't remember how he had gotten hurt.
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Recent Examples of amnesia
Patriotism shouldn't rest on fear or historical amnesia.
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
To walk through an MIT museum and find no trace of Bush’s vision is to suffer a kind of amnesia.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
What’s your take: Is relationship amnesia ruining Love Is Blind Season 8?
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
Her amnesia is a manifestation of that (as a literary device; in real life, your family's trauma doesn't affect your brain damage…probably).
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 June 2025
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
To walk through an MIT museum and find no trace of Bush’s vision is to suffer a kind of amnesia.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
What’s your take: Is relationship amnesia ruining Love Is Blind Season 8?
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
Her amnesia is a manifestation of that (as a literary device; in real life, your family's trauma doesn't affect your brain damage…probably).
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for amnesia
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“Amnesia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amnesia. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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